...ing and appeals of decisions of the Board to the Food Organization. The same right is extended in relation to Provincial Unions—to the Provincial Food Committee, and in relation to the Central Union—to the People's Commissariat of Education.

Until such time as elections of the Boards of Consumer Communes and their Unions are conducted in accordance with the present decree (sections 0–9), the former Boards of Workers' or Civil Cooperation, as appropriate depending on which one formed the basis of the given Consumer Commune, temporarily remain at the head of the Communes and their Unions. In case of necessity, the Boards of both types of Cooperation may be merged,* by decision of the Provincial Food Committees or the People's Commissariat of Food.

Note: In large cities and factory-industrial centers, temporary Boards, with the permission of the People's Commissariat of Food, may be created through election at joint meetings of Factory-plant committees, trade unions, and Soviets with delegates from workers' cooperatives. [In Petrograd and Moscow, at these elections the plenum of the Soviets also participates in the electoral assembly.]

11. Temporary Boards of the Commune may be augmented by representatives of the Provincial Food Committees in numbers sufficient to ensure the correspondence of their activities to Soviet Food Policy. With respect to provincial and regional Unions, the right to augment temporary Boards belongs to the Food Committee, and in relation to the Central Union—to the Council of People's Commissars.***

All members of the former Boards of cooperatives, Provincial Unions, and the Central Union remain in their positions pending re-election,**** bearing responsibility***** both before the Board and before the State authority.